Final_Judgment

[602] Final Judgment 700
Yet another Internet review of Final Judgment came from quite an
interesting source: Daniel Brandt, a veteran and well-known figure of the
so-called "New Left" movement of the 1960s.
In more recent times, Mr. Brandt has been associated with the
newsletter NameBase Newsline and with Public Interest Research, which
categorizes and computerizes a master index of published material of
interest to researchers looking into subjects such as military and
intelligence, political history, etc. The review of Final Judgment reads as
follows (in its entirety):
Just as our two-year subscription to Liberty
Lobby's Spotlight newspaper was winding down, along
comes this book by Spotlight writer Michael Collins
Piper. We clipped a fair number of their investigative
articles for NameBase during that period, and no
longer felt defensive when our leftist critics
condemned Spotlight as anti-Semitic. The rare
instances of excessive anti-Zionist zeal in Spotlight are
more than offset by their consistently credible
reporting on other issues.
When we saw the advance publicity for Final
Judgment, which claimed that this book would offer
"astounding proof" that Mossad had a hand in the
JFK assassination, we were a bit nervous. As it turns
out, the Mossad links presented by Piper are
circumstantial rather than conclusive, but definitely
worth considering. Other aspects of the JFK morass
that Piper discusses, such as the Mafia-CIA-Israeli
connection (starring Meyer Lansky and James
Angleton), Charles DeGaulle and his problems with
the OAS, and the spooky business of Permindex, are
rarely treated in other JFK literature.
So we were happy to include this book in
NameBase, particularly since it doesn't have an index
of its own.
[Note: the first and second editions of Final Judgment were not
indexed. Subsequent editions are indexed.]
The very fact that Mr. Brandt (who comes from the so-called political
"left") has written what is obviously and fair and open-minded review is
interesting in itself and cinforms precisely what I have said from the
beginning: that Final Judgment does not have any "right wing" thesis or
orientation whatsoever.
The most recently published review of Final Judgment appears in
Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information (Los
Angeles, Amok Books, 1999). Edited by Stuart Swezey, Amok describes
itself as a guide to "the most bizarre, controversial and thought-provoking